Archaeology of Knowledge

by Michel Foucault

Overview

Foucault's classic methodological statement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135143091
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/15/2013
Series:	Routledge Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	479 KB

About the Author

Michel Foucault (1926-84). Celebrated French thinker and activist who challenged people's assumptions about care of the mentally ill, gay rights, prisons, the police and welfare.

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction. Part II: The Discursive Regularities 1. The Unities of Discourse 2. Discursive Formations 3. The Formation of Objects 4. The Formation of Enunciative Modalities 5. The Formation of Concepts 6. The Formation of Strategies 7. Remarks and Cosequences Part III The Statement and the Archive 1. Defining the Statement 2. The Enunciative Function 3. The Description of Staements 4. Rarity, Exteriority, Accumilation 5. The Historical a priori and the Archive Part IV Archeological Description 1. Archeology and the History of Ideas 2. The Original and the Regular 3. Contradictions 4. The Comparative Facts 5. Change and Transformations 6. Science and Knowledge Part V: Conclusion Conclusion Index

Editorial Reviews

'He is a brilliant writer.' - Maurice Cranston

'A necessary guide to Foucault's often difficult ideas ... and to his overall historical ambition, which is to define the 'soil' out of which contemporary events in a given period grow.' - Times Literary Supplement

'Next to Sartre's - Search for a Method and in direct opposition to it, Foucault's work is the most noteworthy effort at a theory of history in the last 50 years.'

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